CCHR says the VA and DoD waste billions of dollars on treatments that contribute to high suicide rates, sudden deaths and ...

The Mental Health Watchdog calls for reforms to protect public safety, citing decades of antidepressant, electroshock, and psychedelic drug risks.

Mental health screening and surveillance of apps, social media and phones are being used to monitor all behavior and then through computer programming, predict mental… ...

Watchdog says the recently updated “Declaration of Helsinki” Medical Research Code reinforces experiments on unconsenting mental health patients, a practice the group warns violates the… ...

Madness is currently undergoing a redesign, with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, often called the ‘Psychiatrist’s Bible’ being updated. Basically, a big group of grey-haired ...

Recently, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted the resolution 52/12 on mental health and human rights, which calls on the High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a ...

The World Medical Association (WMA) has unanimously approved new guidelines on informed consent in medical research aimed at enhancing human rights for research participants.[1] While acknowledging ...

“The legacy of these practices continues to affect these communities, who are still subjected to stigmatizing and harmful mental health treatments today. The demand for justice is strengthened by ...

FOR decades, antipsychotic drugs were a niche product. Today, they’re the top-selling class of pharmaceuticals in America, generating annual revenue of about $14.6 billion and surpassing sales of even ...

The “Psychosis Risk” proposal has stimulated widespread opposition (even I am told from within the Workgroup itself). The arguments against it are simply overwhelming. The false positive rate in ...

When Dorothy Washburn Dundas was 19 years old she became sad, felt lonely and attempted suicide by swallowing a half a bottle of aspirin. Her parents took her to the Massachusetts General Hospital ...